Pocket for garments



(No Model.)

- A. B. REISMAN.

I POCKET 1 0R GARMENTS. No. 371,974. Patented Oct. 25, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATEN Fries.

ADOLPH B. REISMAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

POCKET FOR GARM ENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,974, dated Qctober 25, 1851 Application filed August 3, 1887. Serial No. 246,008. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLPH B. REISMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pockets for Garments, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in pockets forgarmentssueh as coats, trousers, vests, and similar wearing-appareland it is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where- Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my improved pocket as applied to a garment; and Fig.2 represents a vertical section on the line A B, shown in Fig. 1.

Si milar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a garment at any given place with a duplex pocket having two separate compartments and upper openings corresponding thereto, the whole being so constructed as to occupy a very small space and to double the holding capacity of a single pocket as ordinarily used without materially increasing the bulk thereof, as will now be more fully described.

In the drawings, a represents a part of the garment to which the improved duplex pocket is applied. Said garment is slitted at a, as shown in Fig. 2, and to thelower edge of such slit, or to a facing, b, secured to it, is sewed the inner pocket-wall, c. To the upper edge of said slit a, or to apocket-facing, d, secured Between the walls 0 and e, which may be made of cotton or linen cloth or other suitable material, is arranged the division-wall f, the sides and bottom of which are sewed to the sides and bottom edges of the parts 6 c, by which I produce two independent pockets, X and Y, as shown in Fig. 2.

To the front of the garment a is preferably secured the re-enforcing piece 9, which is slitted at g to form an entrance to the rear pocket, X, and is also slitted at g, as shown in Fig. 2, to form an entrance for the front pocket, Y. To that portion 9 of the re-enforcing piece 9 between the slits or openings and g is sewed the flap h, thelower portion of which overlaps the entrance for the front pocket, and thus conceals such slit or entrance from view. The division-clothf is sewed in its upper end to the upper edge of the flap h, or to the portion 9 of the re-enforcing piece 9. or to both, as may be desired, as shown in Fig. 2. The reeuforcing piece 9 is for the purpose of imparting strength to the upper edges of the pockets, and thus prevent their being torn or sagging down.

I prefer to use the flap h in the manner as shown and described, whereby the entrance to the front pocket, Y, is concealed, and thus making the device appear toa casual observer as an ordinary single pocket, which is advantageous in case the wearer should be liable to encounter pickpockets; but I do not wish to confine myself to the use of said flap, as the device may be used without it. I

Having thus fully described the nature, construction, and operation of my invention, I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim 1. A garment, a, having a slit, a, made through it and having a slitted re-enforcing piece, g, secured to its front, combined with the three pocket-walls cf 0, united together on three sides and having their upper edges united, respectively, to the slitted portions of the garment a and the re-enforcing piece 9, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The garment a, having the slit a, and the slitted re-enforcing piece g, sewed to its front, combined with the three pocket-walls e f a, united together on three sides and secured in their upper ends to the slitted portions of the garment and its re-enforcing piece, as described, and having the flap h secured to the middle portion, {1 of the re-enforcing piece, and having its lower portion overlapping the opening for the front pocket, Y, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 30th day of July, A. D. 1887.

ADOLPH B. REISMAN.

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANnRitN, HENRY OrmDBoURN. 

